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Creating A Homework Planner: Organize Your Free Time Efficiently

Homework, cramming, learning, remembering, training your brain. All these are very important if you are a student trying to pass your exams.

But free time, downtime is equally important, because the brain needs time to rest, recharge and store all the information given.

Unfortunately the brain – and the person carrying that brain- enjoy and crave that free time a lot more than all the learning stuff and the time to learn becomes smaller and smaller, until you find yourself a days before your exam, with a nice clear brain, but nothing learned. What do you do? You study non-stop and pull all-nighters and turn up at your exam like a zombie, often failing because you're too tired to focus and your brain has overloaded. Or sometimes you just give up.

This is something that can easily be avoided with a little planning.
If you play your cards right you can both study and enjoy downtime.

So, how do we do it?

Study planning

Studying and downtime can coexist

Rest is essential.

You need free time

The best thing to do is think about what you want to accomplish in a day, see if it is feasible and then make a list.

This list could read:

6.00 Get up, do some last minute checks, breakfast, wash, go to college.

15.00 Go home, eat something start homework immediately.

18.00 Take a break, do what you want.

21.00 Check in if you haven't forgotten anything.

22.00 Watch some TV, read or whatever.

23.00 Go to bed to get at least a 7 hour rest.

In the weekends? Use Saturdays for all the studying, and keep the Sundays for yourself for one day all free, all for you.

It really is that easy!!

This really is the most effective schedule to keep. There is you time and study time all together in the right place.

But sadly we often don't keep to these schedules. Life gets in the way, or you loose track of time.

These days that last part can be fixed easily, we all have mobiles, and an organiser app can be downloaded easily and be tailored and programmed to fit your needs.

So yes, make a schedule and learn to keep to it as much as humanly possible. Maybe through Mindfulness, there are great free courses online. Maybe through sheer will power.

The answer is out there for you, and if you really want it, you can do it!!